Tag: turkmenistan (2)
- Oct 02
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How the Great Game Was Played
In the 1990s, the United States decided to challenge Russia’s stranglehold on its former colonies of Central Asia and the Caucasus. The result was one of America’s most triumphant foreign polices of the last decade.
Posted Oct 02, 2007
- Sep 04
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Unocal's Adventure with the Taliban
In the mid-1990s, the California-based oil giant Unocal decided that it was going to do an end run around its competitors on the Caspian Sea and build an oil pipeline straight through the war zone of Afghanistan. That meant cozying up with the Taliban, but that did not throw the scrappy company.
Posted Sep 04, 2007
